Software Engineer, Reliability, Public Sector

Google; Town of Montana (WI); On-site; USD 147,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Public Sector seeks a Software Engineer for reliability on critical public sector projects in the Reston area. You will own end-to-end service life-cycle for air-gapped solutions, ensuring reliability, security, and scalable operations in government environments.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, large-scale design, and governance with a focus on secure, audited platforms. A Top Secret/SCI clearance and US citizenship are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience is required.
• 2 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• 1 year of software development with one or more programming languages.
• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance and willingness to polygraph required.

Responsibilities

• Own the life-cycle of Google Public Sector air-gapped services from inception to deployment and refinement.
• Support services pre-live via design consulting, platform/framework development, capacity planning, and launch reviews.
• Monitor availability, latency, and health to maintain live services.
• Scale systems sustainably through automation and architectural improvements.
• Conduct blameless postmortems and practice incident response.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Software development

System reliability

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s degree or PhD (preferred)

Job description

Software Engineer, Reliability, Public Sector

Location: Reston, VA, USA

Experience Level: Mid

Overview

Google's software engineers develop next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design, and mobile.

As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google's needs, with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities, and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

Role Description

In this role, you will be a part of a major engineering-driven transformation for building and securing sovereign cloud platforms. You will ensure our systems deliver reliability and operate effectively within secure environments. You will use your experience running distributed systems to drive insights and new technology that improves the reliability, efficiency, and simplicity of the operational stack, working to eliminate systemic toil and enforcing long-term architectural excellence. You will shape the future of critical public sector services and solve problems at Google scale.

Google Public Sector brings the magic of Google to the mission of government and education with solutions purpose-built for enterprises. We focus on helping United States public sector institutions accelerate their digital transformations, and we continue to make significant investments and grow our team to meet the complex needs of local, state, and federal government and educational institutions.

Responsibilities

• Own the entire life-cycle of Google Public Sector air-gapped services from inception and design through to deployment, operation, and refinement.
• Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews.
• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• 1 year of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• Must possess an active Top Secret/SCI security clearance and the willingness to undergo a polygraph.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 2 years of experience working with algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis, and software design.
• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.

Compensation

• Salary: $147,000 - $210,000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Additional Information

• Must be a US Citizen to meet customer and compliance requirements, including potential access to classified information.
• In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

Equal Opportunity Employment

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law.

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